The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-04-14

WHOLE NUMBER 1882.
lurking germs of disease and being
greatly conducive to health.
COWS AND STEERS.
Steers and milch cows SHOULD never
be kept in the same pasture. nor should
they be fed alike. Raising beef for
market requires skill. The first
requisite is rapid growth OF
the frame. and in the younger
days of the animal too much
consideration cannot be given this
matter. Steers, when growing, con-
vert all their food in the direction Of
building up the body. There are
times when they must receive special
attention different from that given the
cows, for success depends upon how
the cattle are managed.
HARDENING BUTTER.
These of our readers who are not 50
fortunate as to possess what every
farmer should haye-an ice house-and
at the same time have few pounds of
butter to make up several times week,
may be glad to learn how they can
harden the butter without ice in the hot
test weather. Suppose the butter comes
too soft to work it into firm lump for
sailing. or even printing. Get you
pan Of pure, clear spring water and set
it on shelf or other object high
enough to set the bowl of butter under
it. Now put q number Of small strings
in the water. allowing their ends to
hang outside, and drop the water on
the butter, which should first be cover
ed with \ clean cloth. Do not let the
dropping be too fast, as you want as
much evaporation as possible;
and If ifaslightdraft Of wind, all the better.
This process will certainly harden the
butter, even though the surrounding at
mosphere should be far above the melt
ing point. Dairyman.
sTEADNEss OF PURPOSE.
In whatever you engage. pursue il
with steadiness Of purpose IS though
you we're going to succeed. A vac
illating mind never accomplishes any,
thing worth naming. There is nothing
like fixed, steady aim. It dignifies
our nature and insures our success.
Who have done the most for mankind?
Who have secured the rarest honors?
Who have raised themselves from pow
erty TO richesp Those who were steady
in their purposes. The man who is one
thing to-day and another tomorrow
who drives an idea pell-mell this week.
while it drives him the next weeks
always in trouble, and does nothing
from one years end to the other.
Look ut and admire the man of steady
purpose. He moves noiselessly along;
and yet what wonders he accomplishes!
He rises gradually we grant, but
surely.
TO CURE BAD BREATH.
A bad breath may be cured Is follows,
no matter what the cause: Three hours
after breakfast teaspoonful of the fol-
lowing mixture: Chlorate of potash,
two drains; sweetened water, four
ounces; wash the mouth occasionally
with the mixture and the breath will be
as sweet as an infants.
POULTRY NOTES.
1t pays to keep thoroughbred fowls.
Cocks are at their best when two
years old.
Feed pullets abundantly. Overfeed-
ing may stop old hens laying; never
pullets.
Choose yonr breeding stock careful
" and adhere to what you consider the
| best
Coarse bones in fowls indicate coarse
meat. This is consideration for liable
fowls
Cleanliness, watchfulness and care
are magic words, and speak much for
success in the poultry world.
Early pullets, properly treated, will
lay all winter. But no hen will lay
many eggs during cold weather without
animal food. Give meat once or twice
every week.
Here is an estimate. on authority,
| for 100 hens. The value Of the cOOps
may be placed at 500, the cost of the
food 1925. and the value Of the hens
themselves at $75. or q total of $500.
Estimating at 81 from each hen we
have 3s l-s per cent profit on the in
vestment.
HINTS AND HELPS.
A cheerful mind is better than all the
drugs in materia medica.
To prevent mustard-plasters from
blistering mix with the white Of an egg.
Infammations are most safely and far
more agreeably subdued by the applica-
ton of warm water than cold.
Commissions may frequently be cut
short like magic by turning the patient
Oil his left side. The nausea rs an
after effect Of chloroform or ether mar
COSTS may be generally controlled in the
same manner.
Excellent tooth powder: Suds of cas-.
tile soap and spirits of camphor, of each
an equal quantity; thicken with equal
quantities of pulverized chalk and char
coal to thick paste; apply with the
finger or brush.
1t is claimed that the best results arr
obtained from superphosphates wher
they are used in connection with 8
plentiful supply of barnyard manures,
but this depends upon the food frsm
which the manure is produced.
| 1t is poor policy to make the road.
side the receptacle of all the rubbish OF
the farm. Burn and destroy the brush
put the stones somewhere else, and
NOW the highway. if possible, giving
the farm neat and attractive appear.
ance.
Sour milk mixed with two quarts
ground oats and one part wheat mid
dlings is an excellent reproducing
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